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Oh, to be a Fly... In a Choirbook? #ThingsInBooks

What's For Lunch? This Delicious German-Hungarian Medley! It's chock-full of Prayer and First Communion Cards from Munich, some inscribed by owners in Lippa (Hungary) in 1916 and one printed in Esztergom! The book itself is from Budapest. #NewAcq #NewberryLibrary 1/?

HAD to put the bookplate there, didn't you...

Fancy Meeting You Here!

Ivory does not Bleed, Victor, Flesh does! Perhaps my favorite part of Frankenstein was this medical teaching moment! Thanks for playing with one of these extraordinary eighteenth-century interactive anatomy dolls @realgdt.bsky.social! (The anachronistic Struwwelpeter reading was a close second.)

Going to the store, need a python?

Portrait of the Author? This doodle inside the front cover of a 1491 edition of a book by esteemed Greek literature scholar Manuel Chrysoloras (1350-1415). What do you think,are the hat and nose a match? 🤔 #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 7132) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

S-U-Z-A... Still playing with my new favorite hand-colored 16th c. book at #NewberryLibrary! (Kirchen Postilla, 1553.) Was trying to spell out my name in its wacky initials, as one does, and noticed something... 1/?

The #1 lesson from yesterday’s blowout: Humanities majors killed on the job market 1) Mamdani- Africana Studies 2) Spanberger -French 3) Sherill - Global History

The Emperor's New Clothes? An early reader of this 1553 book of Lutheran sermons ripped out this G initial... But he missed a spot! The uncensored ruler reappears in all his unclothed glory at the very end! #NewberryLibrary (Case folio C 43 .528) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

What's the oLDest book on this #NewberryLibrary shelf? Apparently, an 1894 University of Vermont yearbook with an attitude! #LibraryofCongress #Classification #oLD #shelfie

How a misread Arabic tale misled generations of historians about the Black Death's rapid spread Paper: Mamluk Maqāmas on the Black Death. (2025). Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies, 25(4), 151-181. doi.org/10.5617/jais...

Multi-Map Monday #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 4385) Both Pomponius Mela Cosmography, published by Ratdolt in 1482 Venice. The hand colored, annotated copy on the left arrived in 2023 as part of Art and Jan Holzheimer's amazing collection! i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Oh, Academia! 🤦 (Museums and libraries aren't exactly hiring either...)

I wasn't a pop-up book for Halloween, but I played with them at work...

Going Somewhere This Weekend? This pilgrim's hat with a tiny "Vernicule" on it is a nod to the Vera Icon or Veronica's Face of Christ contact relic, stemming from Crucifixion lore. Worn this way as a printed or painted badge, often on fabric, it was supposed to keep the wearer safe en route! 1/2

Which Is More Miss Scarlet? #DontHaveAClue

Happy Halloween! We recorded the ACTUAL Dance of Death (via music from a #NewberryLibrary book c. 1650) for your listening pleasure! Read all about it while you listen to the recording in my latest blog post! www.newberry.org/blog/spooky-...

Schreinmadonna, anyone? (14th c., Germanisches Nationalmuseum)

Ad Astra! Looking forward to a sneak peek at the NEW "Stars Aligned" exhibition on Astronomy and Astrology at the Adler Planetarium tonight. It opens officially on Halloween! www.adlerplanetarium.org/explore/exhi...

Grass is Always Greener Music in and out of the Marginalia at #NewberryLibrary (Case 4A 643 and Inc. 1902)

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Book Waste Bindings

Getting my literary princess on

Apply! Astronomy! The Adler! At The Newberry! The Celestial Imagination in Indigenous and Early Modern Worlds: mailchi.mp/1222ede5b9c6...

When Book Collectors Think About the Roman Empire Alfred Bull's be-coined 1484 Ptolemy at #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 4394).

SIN! SIN! SIN! SIN! SIN! SIN!

Pink Panther Returns?! #Caturday #NewberryLibrary (Inc. 5656)

Printing on Fabric!!

Tonight! FINALLY! Forbidden Newberry! It's the spookiest @newberrylibrary night! Join me at 5:30 for scary surprises in our SIXTH year of outlandishly frightening fun. 💀 #MementoMori #DanceofDeath #DiadelosMuertos Tickets are going fast, like your numbered days: www.newberry.org/calendar/for...

Monsieur Prawn?!

Dancing to a different beat? Join us at Forbidden Newberry at #NewberryLibrary tomorrow night! www.newberry.org/calendar/for...

Surprise?

Free AU #OFMD

Grand Touring the Catacombs? Come to Forbidden Newberry on Friday! We'll have Skulls Aplenty! #NewberryLibrary www.newberry.org/calendar/for...

New article out - and it’s a Very Scholarly Comic. Footnotes and everything. I had a fantastic time working on this with the fantastic team at @newchaucersociety.bsky.social and hope you enjoy it, too! escholarship.org/uc/item/49h4...

Lovely Literary News! My author mom and I both loved Winifred Watson's 1938 "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" and I scoured libraries for years looking for more to no avail... Happily, #PersephoneBooks is republishing one that got away, Hop, Step and Jump! www.culturednortheast.co.uk/p/25-years-a...

Still at it, apparently?

Stop scrolling and post two characters who bring you happiness.

It Happened IN the White House? No, What Just Happened TO It?! My YA historical fiction writer mom would be SPITTING MAD if she were still here... At least we can hope for move-out day someday. If there is anything historical left!

They're The Same Picture

Caught... RED HANDED!

ISN'T It, Though? Oddly, this ode to INSATIABLE AVARICE is the only hand-colored image in the whole Theater of Morals book... 🤔 #UrineFlask #Gluttony #Gout #Morals #NewberryLibrary (Case folio W 1025 .9415) i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

Louvre OR Lego? Awful lot of heists in the news lately... Gift link below! www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/u...

Sunday, Salty Sunday Remember Lot's Wife?? She's a pillar of the community now... #NewberryLibrary (Wing folio ZP 645 .S742) From an extremely shiny Genealogy of Christ, c. 1632. i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01...

An astonishingly large crowd! Chicago

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